And your flowing gowns cover your sins and your suits,

Who says that yours isn't a right royal sport,

When it's known that you all make your fortunes at Court?

5. France in a state of spontaneous combustion.

Through air as
dark as
dirty muslin,

Duke of Guys.
The city people
go
a-guzzlin.

France is a powder magazine,

A sort of foreign infernal machine—

A barrel of brimstone, of odour ambrosian,